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Friend of dumbass, racist drug fiend. A match made in hell. His most famous quote is, "Hanging out with Elon always makes me feel smart."
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Those tanks look too new and clean or is it me? "self-referential" ???
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Just would like to clarify because OxyContin and oxycodone should be distinguished. To my understanding: Oxycodone is used for palliative care and for patients with acute pain from (for example) cancer or surgery when no other medication is effective. It has a relatively short half-life. The medication stems from the opium poppy and it's been used in medications for many decades. Purdue Pharma originally created OxyContin to market oxycodone in a time-released capsule. Purdue Pharma marketed a product with extra-large doses of oxycodone (to get around half-life problems) and so it could be marketed as a 2x per day drug. They lobbied for and received a stamp of approval from the FDA for treatment of even mild chronic pain. Note the huge expansion in the legal user group they created. Of course many of those patients became addicted to the medication because of the large dosage, the problem became even worse because the capsule's timed-release mechanism was easily defeated, and the capsule could easily be crushed and snorted by addicts. OxyContin continues to be sold legally but the patients it can be prescribed to has been reduced, the amount of time any single patient may be prescribed it has been drastically reduced, and the time-release function is difficult-to-impossible to defeat.
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Understood. I don't know why the link dithers. However if you cut and paste instead of just click, it's solid. assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rYCUmwA4Xxpw/v0 -- again, pdf warning. Fwiw, bwbx.io is a bloomberg site Without getting all into the issue of AI, here's a couple other things I find interesting about this. When OpenAI was trying to raise $$ for their work in order to run it entirely as a non-profit, they received less than $150 Million in donations. They required a far greater sum to build and so created a for profit subsidiary, which raised something like $13 Billion to fund their efforts. I think once again Elmo made a bad deal for himself and he's having remorse, and so we see him acting out. For example, as posted above the first thing he's asked for is that OpenAI show him their work. They're not obligated to do so Just Because the parent company is a non-profit. Also IF if that were part of any deal Elmo made with them then that would be a central part of his lawsuit against them. But, as they say, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. I can't wait to read OpenAI's response, they will almost certainly light him up. I'm no OpenAI or Altman fan so I have some mixed emotions about it but watching Elmo lose is much more fun. For now.
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Going back to grapejuice's issue - Once the judge rules how much the lawyers for the plaintiff are to be paid, Elmo may appeal. Precedent would have allowed for the attorneys to ask for 15% of the amount clawed back - the "canceled reward" - but they only asked for 11%, and asked for it to be paid in stock free of lockup. Which means they could dump it into the market immediately upon transfer. :insert gif of maniacal laughter here: https://www.ft.com/content/1512d925-7ded-4d67-993a-4fc03f2735fc
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I was too busy chortling to read gsoda's words as closely as I'm sure they deserve. A bit of punctuation and capitalization on his end would have helped. However, Judge McCormick's ruling forcing Mosk to return his $85B bonus was clear in logic and seemingly addressed all aspects of law. This being the US, Elmo has the opportunity to appeal McCormick's ruling to a higher court. Bear in mind, McCormick is the very same judge who stepped in when Elmo tried to renege on his offer to purchase twitter, and she forcefully kicked his ass all over the place. I'm sure we'll get to see how he does in a rematch! I regret to inform you that Musk doesn't have much of a point. He filed a lawsuit basically alleging breach of contract. Here's a pdf of Musk's complaint where you can read it all for yourself. https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rYCUmwA4Xxpw/v0 If you do read it I suggest you immediately search for a contract between Altman and Musk, or OpenAI and Musk, or indeed Musk and anyone pertaining to OpenAI. Can't find a contract? Oh, that's right...interestingly, there isn't one. The burden he'll have to meet to prove contractual breach is very high and for a person with his resources and experience to not have a contract at the inception of a business or charitable enterprise will be extremely difficult to overcome when he's suing over an alleged breach. He attempts to assert some sort of informal agreement but his claims border on ludicrous.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Chopper replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Chopper replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Oh wow, doctors are leaving the healthcare industry because of how fucked up the system is in the US?? You don't say, captain obvious!! While you're accurately describing some of the symptoms of our fucked up health care system your belief in amazon is amazingly Polyannish. It's easy to make cuts to health care access when you're selling some access to patients who barely need it. That's the easy part, champ. It's a little different when you target chronically ill and lower income seniors. Congrats though on having amazon's concierge care. I'm sure it'll be super amazing should you require acute care and will stay just as awesome in future years as it's been in the early going - because that's who amazon is. -
Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Chopper replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Yeah they discuss One Medical in the link I offered. (and just to clarify they're trying to bring that model to cover seniors on medicare and call it One Medical for Seniors, and it's going disastrously enough for the paper that Jeff Bezos owns to write about it because the company Amazon purchased is in the DC region.) However the question you raise makes me wonder whether you've bothered to read either of Cory Doctorow's articles about the enshittification process because it's literally about Amazon. By the way, from the linked article.. -
Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Chopper replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Amazon and health care. They purchased a company called One Medical Seniors and are expanding. Apparently they don't believe in medical obligations, just causing a slow, frustrating death to their patients. free link https://wapo.st/3wCuyRy -
Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Chopper replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
How 'bout you go to CR where I presume you normally post? Or maybe back to your full-time job of being a youtube commenter. Also learn how to spell gargle. -
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"CCDH [Center for Countering Digital Hate] and its attorneys — who include Roberta Kaplan, fresh from her victories against former president Donald Trump on behalf of writer E. Jean Carroll — say the case is about a man who holds himself out as the world’s greatest defender of free speech trying to suppress speech he doesn’t like, by CCDH and others worried that they could be next." “We’re living in an age of bullies, and it’s social media that gives them the power that they have today,” Kaplan told The Washington Post. The case, she said, is about “standing up to bullies.” “Elon Musk and X Corp. are trying to intimidate and censor a nonprofit that had the courage to speak the truth about the hate that proliferates on X’s platform,” she said in an email. “We are proud to stand with CCDH.” ... “People are clearly scared about doing research right now, which is particularly worrying in an election year,” CCDH chief executive Imran Ahmed said in an interview. “If we go down, no one will do any more research on X. It will be far too dangerous.” full article
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The most generous interpretation of anyone who believes that google responded with those pictures on purpose in response to the question received is that such persons are extremely gullible to the far right scare machine, or part of it. Meanwhile back to elmo...I'm sure there's an AI thread for y'all to enjoy somewhere around here. Enjoy the Colorado River while/if you still can https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-left-terrible-bind-pulling-061652069.html
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I think it's more a manifestation of google firing their entire Ethical AI staff (which I interpret as an actual anti-DEI move rather than yelling at clouds), and then rushing an incomplete product out the door only to learn their quick fixes sucked, that despite having four wheels it gets stuck in the dirt, it rusts upon contact with liquid, and offers up inputs for questions that they never did get around to testing. (Okay, you got me, not all of those were google.) We're talking about the same company that returned images of Black people a year or two ago when people searched for images of gorillas, aren't we? Black people can't use many automatic hand dryers because skin tone s apparently difficult to account for. I find it appalling that there's a bigger outcry and hysterical pants pissing about a few made up cartoon images than there ever were about real world consequences.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Chopper replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
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